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Founder Of Duke's Women's Studies Department Discusses Evolution Of Women's Scholarship

Transforming Knowledge: Public Talks on Women's Studies 1976-2011 by Jean Fox O'Barr
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Jean Fox O'Barr was denied a teaching job at Duke University in the late 1960s. The reason? Her gender.  But later a few years later, with a shortage of professors, they asked O’Barr to join the political science department. She went on to found the Duke women's studies department and co-founded the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with Jean Fox O'Barr about her life, work and her new book "Transforming Knowledge: Public Talks on Women's Studies, 1976-2011" (She Writes Press, 2013).

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.